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Friday Links

August 29, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Registration is open for our first set of free photography classes through Knowledge Commons DC! Take some fantastic images like this one by Robb Hohmann at Gravelly Point next Tuesday, September 2, or Saturday, September 6, with our talented teacher Chris Williams. Our classes on street photography and impromptu portraiture will open soon.

Read this editorial from John Naughton on why he loves his Leica.
One of the great things about photography is how you can do so much with so little. Martin Kimbell takes stunning photos using a hula hoop and LED lights.
“This week, Mr. Adelman will become, in essence, a photographer in residence at the Library of Congress, a position created to draw attention to the importance of the medium in American life.” Adelman’s work is full of interesting social commentary.
You will think this is amazing or creepy as can be, photographs from a doll hospital in Syndney. The steaming baby head is particularly amazing.
If you like your food to color coordinate, you will like the work of Emily Blincoe.
Patricia Lay-Dorsey was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1988, and has been documenting her life in photographs for the last six years.
Getty looks back at the work of Stanley Green, who won their award in 2011 for his documentary work on toxic electronic waste.
A crazy cat lady/nurse in Peru cares 175 cats with feline leukemia; there are photos by Martin Mejia.
To raise money for tigers, a group last week streaked the London zoo some in painted on tiger costumes.

Friday Links

August 15, 2014 By James Calder

We hope you’ve been paying attention to the events in Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by police last Saturday. There are tons of photos on Twitter, including the police using tear gas on largely-peaceful protestors and an Al Jazeera tv crew (before taking down their equipment) on Wednesday. That same night, police closed a McDonald’s and ushered out all these “dangerous criminals” (they also arrested two reporters, including Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post). The New York Times put together the photos on all our minds, those from Ferguson in 2014 and the Civil Rights Movement half a century ago. Here at home, Howard University students posed for a powerful photo to protest Brown’s killing. Lastly, it’s always worth a reminder, because the authorities often forget: “Citizens have the right to take pictures of anything in plain view in a public space, including police officers and federal buildings.”
“It’s as though we’ve become unsure of our ability to feel, and need to outsource moments to a team, in the hope that collective approval will stand in for meaning.” A Boston Globe op-ed asks if we’re too busy sharing moments to truly experience them.
Photographer Christina De Middel takes spam email she’s received and creates beautifully composed, fictitious portraits of the imaginary senders.
David Waldorf works in both the commercial and fine art worlds, but his cinematic photographs of trailer park residents in Sonoma, California are striking and unsettling in their detail.
“If we’re big enough to fight a war, we should be big enough to look at it.” The fascinating story of The War Photo No One Would Publish.
A survey of photographers who’ve recently had photo books published, listing details of the deals they struck with their respective publishers.
First person account by fashion photographer Rachel Scroggins of a photo she made that ended up being broadly published with neither credit nor permission. Alternative description: Groundhog Day.
Guys on Instagram are now doing their own #MakeupTransformation photos, and it’s priceless.
Crazy images of waves caused by a tidal bore that have created a popular spectator sport in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. These photos make us want to bathe in some…different water, pronto.
The Capital Weather Gang blogged: “Is HDR photography enhancing or defiling how we see weather and nature?“
In 1974, Daniel Sorine photographed a couple of mimes performing in Central Park, only to discover 35 years later that he had captured a then little-known Robin Williams on film.
“The people Stanton photographs are reduced to whatever decontextualized sentence or three he chooses to use along with their photo.” A critique of the popular Humans of New York series.
Lida Moser passed away this week just before her 94th birthday. The highly acclaimed photographer lived in Rockville, Maryland and really hated being pigeonholed.
Two of the women in Garry Winogrand’s iconic 1964 photograph “World’s Fair, New York City” recollect that summer afternoon.
Think you’ve seen some cool cat photos on the interwebs? You ain’t seen nothing ’til you’ve seen Vincent J. Musi’s shots for National Geographic.

Friday Links

August 8, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

The City Paper has a short review on the photo exhibit at the U.S. Botanical Gardens.
Copyright law is complicated and confusing, especially when Wikipedia argues that since this endangered crested black macaque took the photo himself, the photographer has no rights to it. But if David Slater doesn’t have the copyright, who does? (Hint: Not the monkey.)
Photographer Jonathan French will be honored next week at the Third Annual East of the River Distinguished Artist Awards Reception.
“The winners of the Popcap 14 prize for contemporary African photography cover everything from fictional set ups of tribal rituals to the impact of mining on forgotten communities.” You can see some of the winners over on The Guardian.
This is the kind of “baby” photo session we can get behind: one with a dog.
At the Leica Store, this month’s Oskar Barnack Wall winning photograph was shot by Kashif Javaid.
Notorious Russian “rooftoppers” Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov take death-defying photos from high atop skyscrapers around the world. Their latest destination: Hong Kong.
The yet to open National Museum of African American History and Culture made an acquisition of rare photographs of Martin Luther King Jr.
Smile for the cameras! Every attendee at two concerts last year in Boston were photographed by the city. “We’re not talking about old school black and white surveillance cameras. More like technology that analyzes every passerby for height, clothing, and skin color.” Yikes.
A shrinking salt lake leaves an extinct volcano’s cone exposed in the Iranian desert, as seen in this amazing photo from the ISS.
Dear Leader really, really, really likes lubricant.
German photographer Herlinde Koelbl has published Targets, a photo documentary book featuring shooting targets from 30 countries used during military training.
This is the last week to catch the Magnum exhibit Unintended Journeys at the Natural History Museum.
“Troy Holden didn’t carry around a camera when he first moved to San Francisco in 1996. Now, he wishes he had. Since then, his adopted city has changed quite a bit.”
Care for the Wild International is asking tourists to stop taking selfies with tigers while traveling abroad, as the money they spend funds animal abuse.

Friday Links

July 25, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

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Happy Friday y’all! Ready for links? Here goes: Frank Underwood as photographer, BuzzFeed reinvents the photographer’s rights wheel, controversy over photoshoot of poor people, and granting prisoners a photographic wish.

Ansel Adams wasn’t the only early photographer to explore Yosemite. Carleton Watkins also photographed the area in the late 1800’s.
The documentary work by Brenda Ann Kenneally of people living in poverty in Troy, NY caused a barrage of negative internet comments after it was featured in Slate. The New York Times has a good breakdown of the controversy.
This week is the 45th anniversary of the moon landing, so check out some of these rare photos of the Apollo 11 mission.
The New York Daily News laid off 17 journalists this week, including five photographers.
Oh Buzzfeed, this is a tale as old as time. Welcome to D.C., where security guards at Federal buildings enforce rules that don’t exist. “Which ugly Federal building are you?” quiz coming soon.
Border Patrol agents hold boy scouts at gunpoint for taking a picture of them. “The agent immediately confiscated his camera, informed him he would be arrested, fined possibly $10,000 and 10 years in prison,” Fox was quoted as saying.
A D.C. couple had their first photo as an engaged couple taken by Frank Underwood.
The Afghan police officer who killed AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus got the death penalty.
Photographer Mark Strandquist asked hundreds of prisoners a straightforward question — if your cell could look out on one scene, what would it be?
“He noticed that Chinese customers would often make a day out of it — bringing their tea and snacks, getting some shopping done and then treating themselves to a nice nap.” Kevin Frayer documents the not uncommon practice of IKEA shoppers in China taking naps in display rooms.
Wired goes “On the Prowl With Instagram’s Ultimate Street Photographer” Daniel Arnold.
Queen Photobombs Hockey Player’s Selfie. Enough said.
And finally, CityLab shares a video about the National Wildlife Property Repository, which houses millions of “products” of the illegal wildlife trade. The property includes an abundance of tigers.

Friday Links

July 18, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

The end of the week is nigh! So you’re gonna need some links to help you cross into the next world. Or the weekend. We have the winners of Nat Geo’s first drone photography contest, the top World Cup photos and why they’re so fab, an interview with Exposed alum Jim Darling, and tigers designing jeans. Head towards the light:

You can read an interview with Exposed alum and local photographer Jim Darling in Atlantic Media Strategies.
The Guardian’s sports photo editor picks the top World Cup images and explains why they stood out from the 250,000 shots they received. Spend some time with these shots.
Photographer Melissa Golden wrote about her experience of being misquoted and having her work falsely represented in Politico, and works to clear her name.
Want to learn how to be a street photographer without being a jerk? Learn from four local photographers in this article on CityLab.
Need help getting your images copyrighted? Local photographer John Harrington made this video as a step-by-step guide to registering published images.
Local photographer Gaston Lacombe, who we interviewed last year, is showing his Antarctic penguin photos at Photoville in New York. The New Yorker has a slideshow of his images.
Photos by Gregg Segal of people lying in a week’s worth of their own trash.
Science magazine used a photo of transgender women with their heads cropped off as the cover for the latest issue, highlighting how to stay a “step ahead of HIV/Aids.” In a field that has been trying to attract more women, the cover did not go over well.
Is drone photography a fad, or here to stay? It may not matter when you look at these amazing drone photos.
Want to get a master class in space photography? Then read this Time interview with astronaut Don Pettit.
And finally, tigers are so awesome they are “designing” their own jeans.